Hang With Friends

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Picture yourself spending some time with congenial friends, sharing your lives and pictures from your cell phones." They're curious about that cool game, song, movie, camping trip, art show, or other event that fascinated you. You talk about all kinds of stuff, poetry, styles, personal achievements, relationships, and bad days. You can share your inner child, and laugh together. They sympathetically listen to your feelings about serious topics like politics or climate change, even when they don't agree.

Personal validation comes from paying attention to one another, giving more than you get. Everyone respects you and themselves, despite our amazing range of personal tastes and interests. They'll tell you they don't agree with an idea or behavior without implying you're a bad person or somehow deficient. It's an "I'm OK, You're OK" kind of fellowship, where nobody tries to make himself look better by picking on somebody else.

Nobody here is into mind games. A discussion started with a loaded guilt-throwing question will be deleted.

This group is not intended to compete with other groups on topics they cover but to "fill in the cracks." Whenever a discussion dwells at length on a topic for which there's an existing group, we urge you to provide members a link to that group to continue along their tangent.

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Ages ago (five or six years, I guess it is) when I first started recognizing my own atheism, one of the first atheist YouTubers I ran onto was Non Stamp Collector. His handiwork wasn't up to Disney's standards, nor even Hanna-Barbera, but his wit…Continue

Here is an oldie, the young Richard Dawkins teaching kids about the universe. I especially like the one demonstrating how the eye evolved. This should answer those who believe it was impossible to evolve an eye. Continue

TheraminTrees doesn't release videos very often these days, but when he does, they are positive GEMS. Most recent of his works is the following, wherein he dismantles some of the common rebuttals atheist get from believers when we assert our…Continue

My take on the recent melt down at Hang With Friends, of which I missed part, is that some of us were tripped up by a habit of thought. It's something we learn growing up, and use without realizing how much pain it can generate - failing to…Continue

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Hi, Steph. Trying to stay warm with these cold, cold temperatures and additional snow here in Illinois. Had the pleasure of some warm weather the other night when I spent a night in Tampa. 72-degrees and swaying palm trees. Nice! Los Angeles was gorgeous as well. That's one of the great perks of my job. It goes both ways, though. I've spent many miserably hot times in Miami and Washington DC in the sweltering August heat.

Even though I've never been a gum-cherwr, I would tell people to avoid BuyBull Gum because amout of bacteria found in "holy" water fonts....

Heh!

Steph, I'm not exactly "Fe-line lucky," but I'm still FELAINE!

(Frances ELAINE...using my middle name all my life has caused me all kinds of mix-ups with our Holey Bureaucracy, but I like things this way...and it's what my parents called me. Too late to ask anybody why they did that now.)

And Felaine, hang in there... if the US were a civilized nation, health care wouldn't be held hostage to a predatory layer of administrators and insurance shareholders. But I'm preaching to the preacher, so to speak.

Thanks, Joan, for the pointer to a "vision" of St. Nicholas based on actual knowledge and evidence (imagine that!) rather than "our heroes must be white".

I saw Wicked in 2006. I agree, Loren, it was a lot of fun and very enjoyable. I have to laugh at one reviewers comment at the time that stated the majority of the audience was teen girls and gay men. Yup, I was there with a guy I was dating at the time and I can confirm that statement.